 | 1819 - 594 pages
...ground, — — — — — for all the wealth That siuews bought aud sold have ever earn'd ; I would much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him." Cowper. IN peruging a recent Volume of Travels in North America, I was much gratified to learn, (hat... | |
 | Baptists - 1819 - 576 pages
...ground, — — • — — — for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd ; I would much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on htm." Cawper. IN perusing a recent volume of Travels in North America, I was tiiucli gratified to learn,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...would not have a slave to till my ground, ( To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, \ And tremble while I wake, for all the wealth ((That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...AGAINST SLAVERY. I WOULD not have a slave to till my ground, To earry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized beyond all price ; I had... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1820 - 98 pages
...think himself a man? 1 would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, .And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's J ust estimation, prized above all price ; 72 I... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earn 'il. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...bought and sold have ever earn'd No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ; I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, thpn fasten fhem on him. We hare no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried... | |
 | William Cowper - 1822 - 258 pages
...I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home—Then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us are emancipate... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...brought and sold have ever earii'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation, priz'd above all price; I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on htm. We have no slaves at home—then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o-er the wave That... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 562 pages
...himself a man .' I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much... | |
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I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. 
